16 April 2017

The most dystopian parts of my day

1. Walking from Westfield to Brookfield on my way to work, through a long corridor with a giant LED ad that runs its entire length. It's like the Walking Dead in the morning, except everyone is much better dressed and technically alive.

2. Waiting in line at the Whole Foods in Union Square surrounded by 100 people, each with their own little individual basket filled with low-carb healthy protein free range organic eggs and unsweetened almond milk and pre-washed organic baby spinach in a box, headphones in, looking at their Facebook feed.

3. The subway during rush hour, now that it's cleaner than it was in the 90s.

4b. These two bozos could potentially blow this entire world into smithereens because of some perceived insult casually lobbied pre-dawn, from a resort in Florida, in under 140 characters, over Twitter.

5. That every morning I get up and coordinate a choreographed dump of my team's collective brain thoughts onto the intangible internet, and millions upon millions of anonymous strangers out there find, read, digest, use, and share the contents of our brains.

Hi there!

Previously, I was the Digital Director at Food & Wine, the Digital Director at WWD, the Digital Editor at Large at Glamour, the Executive Editor at Epicurious, the Founding National Editor of Racked, and, way back in the day, a Plus-Size Model signed to Wilhelmina. I'm the author of 'How Not to Look Fat,' which was published by HarperCollins, and a Dartmouth, Oxford, and Central Saint Martins alum.